Frequently Asked Questions

Maxim Milakov wrote: Hi William, Timeline page – https://www.kaggle.com/c/second-annual-data-science-bowl/details/timeline – says “Your model must be finalized and uploaded to Kaggle by this deadline”. This suggests that no further training should be done after March 7, moreover the model uploaded by March 7 should be used for generating predictions on the test set. And this makes sense. We can hardly expect to do the training for each patient at the hospital. Thanks, Max. William Cukierski wrote: Imagic Mobile wrote: When the validation volumes are released 7th March, can those be used as part of the training for the final test set? Yes I actually have a different questions here. There is a large family of methods used in medical image analysis called multi-atlas segmentation. And the method does not have a…